Ironing-board support



May 11 1926.

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IBONING-BOARD FSUPPOR'I.

Application. filed October 25, 1921. Serial No. 510,387.

This invention relates to toldable ironing board supports, and has tor an object the provision of novel means whereby an ironing board may be set up or knocked down and stored, in order that the device will occupy comparatively small space and which will permit its being suspended in an outot-the-way place in the house.

A further object of this invention is to 19 produce a support for an ironing board in which the end legs or trusses are foldable,

the said end. trusses being connected by a beam or rib, sectional in character, and having means by which they may be telesropically connected together to increase or diminish the distance between the trusses, in order that ironing boards of different lengths may be supported.

It is a further object of this invention to provide novel means whereby the sectional beams are pivotally connected to the heads or trusses, and in which the beams have their ends pivotally connected, in order that the structure may be held together without liability of parts becoming lost.

A still further object of this invention is to produce a device of the character indicated which will possess advantages in points of efficiency and simplicity.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinafter more fully set forth and claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which- Figure 1 illustrates a side elevation of an ironing board support embodying the invention;

Figure 2 illustrates an end view thereof;

Figure 3 illustrates a view in elevation of the support in its folded state;

Figure 4 illustrates a plan view of one of the sections; and

Figure 5 illustrates an underneath View of a fragment of the ironing board.

In these drawings A denotes the end legs or trusses, each comprising crossed supporting elements or legs having braces or tie bars B, one at the top and one between the ends of the said legs. The tie bars act as anchor-. ages for pivots D, which may be' in the nature of comparatively short metal pins which project from the upright frame elements C and are trunnioned in the tie bars in a manner to permit the free rotation of the frame elements C. Each element C constitutes an anchorage for a section of a beam, the said sections being identified by the ref-v erence letters E-E and the beams are stabilized with respect to the upright members by the braces F which connect an upright member with a beam, and this mounting serves to retain the sections of the beam at right angles to the axis of the bars or frame sections (3, permitting the sections of the beam to oscillate on a pivot H, extending through apertures GG formed in the beams, it being understood that the apertures of one beam member shall coincide with the apertures of the other beam memher, in order that fastenings H as well as removable pins I may be inserted in the said apertures for holding the beam sections rigid at the joint between them. For convenience in holding the parts in assembled relation, the pins may be loosely connected to the beams by chains J, in order that they will be within reach of an operator when the device is being manipulated to mount it or dis mantle it.

It will be apparent that the pivot H may be placed in any of the apertures of the beams when any two are brought into alinement, and that the pins I will operate to prevent any oscillation of one of the beam sections with relation to the other after a proper adjustment has been attained.

As a means for retaining an ironing board on the end supports or trusses, a screw eye K may be applied to each of the upper tie bars, whereas the ironing board K may be provided with pins L loosely suspended from the under side of the ironing board by the screw eyes M, so that as the ironing board is applied to the supports, the pins carried by the ironing board may be inserted in the screw eyes K, a condition which will prevent movement of the board while it is being used.

A hanger N is secured to one end of one of the beam sections and this hanger may be 105 in the nature of an apertured strap, the aperture of which will receive a nail, hook or suspending element by which the whole structure may be supported in some out-ofthe-way place in a house Where it will not prove an obstruction.

I claim:

The herein described ironing board sup port comprising;- end legs having crossed supporting elements, braces conneeting'the crossed. elements at their upper -ends and below their intersections,pintles projecting oppositely from the braces 01 each leg, a frame element trunnioned 0n eachpair of pintles, a beam secured to and projecting at right angles from each frame element on different horizontal planes, the said beams being assembled in superimposed relation and each having a plurality of apertures, a pivot extending through two coinciding apertures of the beams and locking pins in other coinciding"apertures of the beams for holding the beam sections rigid when set up "for use, and means for fastening an ironing board on the top -oi'- the upper tie bars, substantially as described.

ORAL LOTT. 

